ALLEN PARK -- Three weeks before Ameer Abdullah would hurt his neck and the Detroit Lions needed a new lead running back, Tion Green's mother had a prediction to make to her son.
"'Come Baltimore, you're going to play in your first game,'" Green remembers her saying. "'You're going to make a touchdown. And I'm going to be there.'"
Green, an undrafted rookie out of Cincinnati, talks to his mother all the time. He told her she was crazy.
But then Green was at the team hotel Saturday night in Baltimore when he got a knock on the door.